Escaped slaves in Brazil created thousands of hidden societies, or quilombos, in the heart of the country. Today these communities are winning rights to their land—and helping protect it.

Newly imported African slaves fled South Carolina to establish maroon communities in Florida in the late 1600s, a tradition that was continued by American-born fugitives from South Carolina and ...

A: When the American Revolution began, maroon communities became larger and they became stronger. And it's important in the context of the American Revolution, because we tend to think only in ...